Sociologist and empirical researcher, interested in families, life courses, time use and inequality.
Senior Researcher at the State Institute for Family Research and Private Lecturer for Sociology at the University of Bamberg, both in Germany, Editor & Managing Director of the Journal of Family Research.
“Describing society”:
“How much should the mother/father of a 2-year old child work?” (OSF, 2023)
Recent preprint:
Children’s gendered trajectories of housework time when leaving home (SocArXiv, 2023)
Recent publications include:
When the last child moves out: Continuity and convergence in spouses’ housework time (Journal of Marriage and Family, 2023, open access)
The family side of work-family conflict: A literature review of antecedents and consequences (Journal of Family Research, 2022, open access)
Parents’ experiences of work-family conflict: Does it matter if coworkers have children? (Journal of Family Research, 2022, open access)
Stability and change in German parents’ childcare patterns across two decades (Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2022)
Special Issue in the Journal of Family Research:
Work-family conflict from the perspective of the family (Journal of Family Research, Issue 4, December 2022, open access)